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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"age of acquisition"”.
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Age of acquisition and semantic typicality effects
Age of acquisition (AOA) is a psycholinguistic variable that significantly influences behavioural measures (response times and accuracy rates) in tasks that require lexical and semantic processing. Its origin is – unlike the origin of semantic typicality (TYP), which is assumed at the semantic …
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Brain Structure and Age of Acquisition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
Researchers debate whether the age of second language acquisition (AoA) plays any role in determining brain structure. Whereas some studies suggest that bilinguals handle both languages via a single set of cognitive control regions regardless of AoA, others suggest that each language depends on …
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Speech Intelligibility and Bilingualism: The Effects of Age of Acquisition
One of the central questions of second language acquisition research has been what affect age of acquisition has on the language learner's eventual proficiency in a second language. Researchers have tried to determine whether there is a strong correlation between age of onset and fluency in the …
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The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals
Research investigating the neural correlates of second language (L2) processing has usually studied age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency separately. Presently, we examined both in parallel, treated as continuous variables. We used fMRI to study neural activity for L2 processing in adult native …
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Organisation des bilingualen Gehirns : eine EEG-Studie zum Einfluss von Erwerbsalter und Sprachniveau
The existence of a critical period is a topic of controversal discussion in the second language acquisition research (e.g. Birdsong, 1999). Studies using brain imaging techniques as well as electrophysiological studies provide inhomogeneous findings of the brain organization of first and second …
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The effect of printed word attributes on Arabic reading
… vowels and therefore a single letter string can often be associated with two or more distinct pronunciations and meanings. The high level of homography is believed to present difficulties for the skilled reader. However, this is the first study to gather empirical evidence on what readers know …
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The effects of word characteristics on children's reading
The object of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate the effects of word characteristics on children's reading performance. The experiments investigating word imagery and age of acquisition showed that imagery was a highly significant word characteristic for less skilled readers. …
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A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Agreement in Spanish and English Monolinguals and Bilinguals
… 1 investigated agreement in monolingual speakers of English (n=18), Mexican Spanish (n=32), and Dominican Spanish (n=28), who were aurally presented with 32 complex noun phrases (16 with conceptually plural, grammatically singular head nouns, 16 with conceptually and grammatically singular head …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
Humans are capable of learning multiple languages without major difficulty, especially at an early age. While this brings obvious advantages such as intercultural communication and enhanced career prospects, bilingualism has also been linked to changes to selective attention and inhibition of …
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Die neuronale Verarbeitung von Nomen und Verben
… sind. Ferner wird der Einfluss des Faktors age-of-acquisition (Erwerbsalter) auf die Hirnaktivierung beim Bildbenennen überprüft. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass der Abruf von Nomen und Verben ähnliche kortikale Aktivierungen in bilateral okzipitalen sowie links frontalen, temporalen …
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Bilingualism and executive functioning: language experience as more than a binary variable.
The possibility of bilingual advantages in executive functioning has been a matter of debate for some time. One side of the argument claims that certain bilingual experiences lead to practice and therefore improvement in executive control. Others draw attention to a possible publication bias, a …
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The Relationship between Bilingualism, Cognitive Control, and Mind Wandering
<p>The unique linguistic experience of bilingualism purportedly produces cognitive control advantages. Although there is a significant body of evidence supporting this view, there are also several recently published research studies that failed to replicate bilingual advantages. Furthermore, there …
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CHILDREN'S MENTAL ROTATION: COMPETENCE AND PROCESS.
… focusing on the developmentalists' concern for age of acquisition of this ability and the information theorists' attention to stimulus factors influencing this competency. Sixty students, twenty each in kindergarten, third, and fifth grade, participated in the study; there were equal numbers of …
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… differences in using the ba construction in heritage Chinese speak-ers and L2 speakers of Chinese. The study compares the use and knowledge of the ba con-struction by L1 native speakers, heritage speakers (HL), and L2 learners of Mandarin Chi-nese. Heritage language speakers are exposed to …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
The aim of the research was to examine lexico-semantic processes in monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) – English (L2) speaking adults. This has been achieved via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the …
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The influence of individual differences on reading in readers of consistent compared to inconsistent orthographies
Languages differ in terms of how consistently they reflect spelling-sound relationships, and research has found that this may lead to differences in naming (reading aloud) processes. Readers themselves differ from each other in terms of relevant task performance, such as nonword decoding ability, …
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The role of cognitive factors on the development and evolution of the vocabulary
… structured. Recent approaches to studying language have been heavily influenced by the principle that languages are shaped to suit the general learning and processing biases of the learner (Christiansen & Chater, 2008). This view has gained considerable support from theoretical and empirical …
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Interactions of caregiver speech and early word learning in the Speechome corpus : computational explorations
How do characteristics of caregiver speech contribute to a child's early word learning? What is the relationship between a child's language development and caregivers' speech? Motivated by these general questions, this thesis comprises a series of computational studies on the fined-grained …
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Lexical-semantic parameters as robust endophenotypes of abnormal cognitive decline in ageing
The objective of this dissertation was to characterise the relative contribution of genetic influences to individual differences in cross sectional performance and decline of semantic-lexical abilities and to investigate whether these linguistic effects indicating semantic degradation are sensitive …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
Tests of confrontation naming play an important role in the clinical assessment of language. Commonly used naming tests have a variety of limitations including ceiling effects, outdated stimuli, differential item functioning across groups, and often ignore speed of word retrieval even though this …
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